Your harvest pays once. Make sure it pays you.
An urgent supplier email should not put your next payment—or your busiest week—at risk. We help small and midsize agricultural businesses review the safeguards around business email, employee accounts, supplier communications, and the systems that support orders and deliveries.
The free review uses public information only. The Baseline reviews internal settings and records agreed with you.
Who this is for
This guidance is for owners, general managers, controllers, and operations managers who rely on business email, supplier relationships, account access, and dependable order and delivery processes.
Example
These are common examples, not client incidents. The point is to make a pause-and-verify habit practical before an email, payment, or account request becomes an operational interruption.
What could go wrong: A rushed payment could be sent to the wrong account before anyone independently confirms the change.
Safeguard worth checking: Verify bank-detail changes through a known phone number or other trusted contact method, not the contact details in the request.
What could go wrong: A lookalike sign-in page could collect a business password and create access to email or shared records.
Safeguard worth checking: Require multifactor authentication (MFA) where supported, and give employees a clear way to verify unexpected sign-in requests.
What could go wrong: A former relationship may retain a path to business email, files, vendor portals, or remote support tools.
Safeguard worth checking: Review account ownership, administrator access, and offboarding evidence on a regular schedule.
A farm does not need automated machinery to depend on digital records. Email, online banking, supplier portals, payroll, and shared files all support daily work. Farming cybersecurity starts with knowing who can use those accounts, how payment changes are verified, and which records you could recover after an outage.
For U.S. agricultural businesses with roughly 5–50 employees, especially those using Microsoft 365 without an internal security team, we focus on business IT safeguards. Equipment controls, irrigation, and production-system testing are separate specialist work.
Start with account protection, independent payment verification, and evidence that essential records can be restored.
Agriculture cybersecurity best practicesAssign recovery priorities, check seasonal access, and rehearse an outage before the office gets busy.
Farming cybersecurity checklist for harvestIdentify approved vendor accounts, remote-support tools, and the person who can end access when the work is done.
Farm account and vendor-access checksFor an outside-in starting point, read what public email records, websites, and remote logins reveal about an agricultural business.
Evidence before assumptions
Agree the systems and records to review with your provider. Hands-on changes, recovery tests, and penetration testing can be quoted separately.
Check public SPF and DMARC records and available DKIM records. For an internal assessment, review the underlying configuration with your provider.
Check Microsoft 365 MFA enforcement, administrator permissions, and how accounts are added and removed.
Confirm how accounting or purchasing verifies bank-detail changes using a trusted, independently sourced contact method.
Identify approved vendor connections, their account owners, and who can remove access.
Review available evidence for backup coverage, responsibilities, and documented restore testing.
Run realistic phishing exercises and practical follow-up training for office, purchasing, and operations staff when that service is selected.
A clear service path
The right next step depends on whether you need an outside-in starting point, agreed internal verification, targeted implementation, or a staff-readiness exercise.
Public signals around business email, domains, websites, and internet-facing services, with a first next step. No passwords or internal access.
Start the free review$1,995 for businesses with up to 25 employees. Verify agreed internal safeguards and receive prioritized findings with available evidence.
Explore the BaselineSeparately scoped changes can be coordinated with your business and existing IT provider after the relevant gap and ownership are clear.
Discuss a focused scopeUse relevant scenarios for office, purchasing, and operations staff, then provide practical follow-up training and a dated report.
Explore phishing testingFor weekly practice, agriculture awareness training covers harvest fuel payments, equipment deposits, and vendor support requests. An annual combination adds four simulated-email campaigns.
View agriculture training and team plansWant us to manage recurring campaigns and follow-up? The Managed Human-Risk Program includes a shared dashboard and quarterly reviews, with monthly pricing by quote.
Scope a managed program for your agricultural businessWorking alongside IT
We work alongside the provider supporting your daily systems. They receive clear findings and priorities, with responsibility for any changes agreed before work starts.
Questions from agricultural businesses
The starting point is the business IT that supports email, employee accounts, supplier communication, payments, orders, deliveries, shared files, and recovery. The exact work depends on whether you start with public signals, an agreed internal assessment, or a separately scoped improvement.
Yes. Your provider can remain responsible for day-to-day IT. We can independently review agreed evidence, identify clear ownership, and provide findings your provider can use to address confirmed gaps.
It identifies public signals around your domains, business email, websites, certificates, and internet-facing services. Public information only. No passwords or internal access.
We can help you assess and improve the safeguards around payment-change requests, business email, account access, and staff verification procedures. DMARC helps address some direct-domain spoofing, but it does not stop lookalike domains, compromised legitimate mailboxes, or every fraudulent request.
No. This work focuses on business IT and administrative safeguards. Testing or changing grain-handling controls, production equipment, irrigation systems, or other operational technology requires a separate scope.
Start with the free review when you want an outside-in view of public signals and a first next step. Choose the Business Security Baseline when you need agreed internal safeguard verification, evidence, and prioritized findings for leadership and your IT provider.
Start with the public signals around your business, or contact us when you are ready to discuss an agreed scope for internal verification.
